Hardcover UK, first printing and true first edition. (The first US was published on September 24, 2002 by Scribner.) Very fine (unread) copy in very fine jacket. The UK has a much smaller print run than the US edition. Not a remainder, book club or ex-library copy. A clean, straight copy without price-clipping. Award History: 2003 Bram Stoker Nominee for Best Novel (lost to The Night Class by Tom Piccirilli); Washington Post Best Fiction Books of 2002.